Schools in Uttarakhand's Pithoragarh to remain shut tomorrow amid heavy rainfall
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Sildo observes Dussehra (Vijayadashami) on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, along with the rest of Uttarakhand.
Temples near Sildo
Named places of worship on record
The principal temple recorded for Thal mandal is Shikhar Moolnarayan Temple. No temple of this dedication is on record within Sildo itself.
Ramlila through the nine nights and the burning of Ravana, Meghnad and Kumbhakarna effigies on Dussehra evening. Kullu Dussehra in Himachal begins on Vijayadashami and runs a week, with village deities carried to Dhalpur maidan.
The regional form observed across North India. How any one household or village keeps it varies, and is not something recorded here.
By population, Sildo ranks #62 of 103 villages in Thal mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Sildo is a village of 85 people in 18 households (Census 2011) in Thal tehsil, Pithoragarh district, Uttarakhand, the 62nd-largest of 103 villages in Thal tehsil. Literacy is 68%, 2 points below the tehsil average of 70% and the sex ratio is 1,297 women per 1,000 men. It lies 13 km from the Pithoragarh district centre, 50 km from Kafara, the nearest town, 76 km from Kathgodam railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 262552, served by Thal (Pithoragarh) post office; the LGD village code is 49594. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, Jalmani, 5 km away. The sarpanch is SONIYA DEVI , and the village votes in Kapkote assembly constituency, represented by MLA Suresh Gariya. The population is estimated at 100 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Sources: Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India (Census 2011 + Population Projections 2011-2036) · International Institute for Population Sciences (NFHS-5) · Election Commission of India · data.gov.in (Jal Jeevan Mission, PMAY-G, SBM-G dashboards). Projections may differ from on-the-ground reality by ±20% for individual villages. An asterisk next to a sex-ratio value (—*) flags a Census 2011 figure outside the plausible range of 300–2000 ♀/1000♂; the underlying source row is suppressed pending review.
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